When I visitied Boten several times in 1994 it was a dusty and rather decrepit border crossing between northern Laos and China. Its key features were a row of rustic shop houses, a border checkpoint and, a kilometre or so to the south, the old salt works for which the village has long been regionally [...]
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan …
January 9th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 3 Comments
Tags: China · Focus on Laos · Laos · Trans-Border Issues